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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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NDA funds Plutonium Ceramics Academic Hub with U.K. universities
The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced that it will establish a Plutonium Ceramics Academic Hub with the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield. The announcement follows a decision by the U.K. government in January to immobilize the country’s inventory of civil separated plutonium at the Sellafield nuclear site, mitigating the material’s long-term safety and security risks.
Technical Session|Methods
Monday, April 22, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Franciscan D
Session Chair:
Oliver Buss (NEA)
Alternate Chair:
Emily Shemon (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Hursin (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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Multiphysics Simulations of the KRUSTY Criticality Experiment Using BlueCrab
3:30–3:50PM PDT
Yan Cao (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Kun Mo (ANL), Nicolas Stauff (ANL), Changho Lee (ANL)
Paper
Coupled Multiphysics Modeling of Heat Pipe Microreactors Using Cardinal, BISON, and Sockeye
3:50–4:10PM PDT
M. Eltawila (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), A.J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Y. Miao (ANL)
Application of Basis Projection Methods to Temperature Distribution Construction in Heat Pipe Microreactor
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Multiphysics Simulation of TRISO Fuel Compacts and the Effects of Homogenization
4:30–4:50PM PDT
Aya Hegazy (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rizwan-uddin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Thermal-Mechanical Considerations for the Radiantly Integrated TPV-Microreactor System
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Naiki Kaffezakis (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Presented by Bailey Painter (Georgia Tech)
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